I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekanegas show.

We got a good one today, Thomas.

Let's talk about, well, finishing up the Cold War series, you know, they jump right into conflict in the Gulf.

So you wanted to talk about the Gulf War, what some people call Gulf War I, number one.

And yeah, so why is this such a compelling topic to you?

There's a few things I want to cover, too, that are related out of the gate.

One of the guys on my timeline, he a question he asked me because i i mentioned that

there's this essay that's very hard to find for some reason it was it was it was yaki's in the

year 2000 essay where i made i i i i advise people to take note that you know yaki Yaki was suggesting that the Soviet Union would not exist at the turn of the millennium, like, as constituted in 1950.

And this dude who follows us abidly, he's like, you know, did Yaki have a, did he render, like, a similar diagnosis for the United States, like, you know,

appropriately speaking?

And I told him no, because generally that kind of things are a fool's errand.

You know, he's like, no, I understand that.

And it's not like a dumb question at all.

Like, it's in short form, I don't like it.

It's impossible to convey tone.

I wasn't being flipping about that at all. It's a good question. But the reason why, I mean, Yaki definitely in absolute terms,

would not have viewed and did not view the American system as long for this earth. But

there was something peculiar about communism.

I mean, there's all kinds of peculiar things about it,

but it was more contrivance than other ideological experiments.

Like, obviously, arguably, it was the only true sort of top-down,

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